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How many working days in year 1997?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1997 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 14 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 247 working days in 1997.
Here is the list of these 14 public holidays:
1. 신정 : Wednesday, 1 January, 1997
2. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Thursday, 6 February, 1997
3. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Friday, 7 February, 1997
4. 삼일절 : Monday, 3 March, 1997
5. 어린이날 : Monday, 5 May, 1997
6. 석가탄신일 : Wednesday, 14 May, 1997
7. 현충일 : Friday, 6 June, 1997
8. 광복절 : Friday, 15 August, 1997
9. 추석 : Monday, 15 September, 1997
10. 추석 : Tuesday, 16 September, 1997
11. 추석 : Wednesday, 17 September, 1997
12. 개천절 : Friday, 3 October, 1997
13. 한글날 : Thursday, 9 October, 1997
14. 성탄절 : Thursday, 25 December, 1997
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Saturday, 8 February, 1997
2. 삼일절 : Saturday, 1 March, 1997
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